Obituaries: A Dead Important Genre
Obituaries are micro-narratives in which distinct conventions and tensions are at work. Humanist and historical, emotional and dispassionate, philosophical and random, obituaries have a literary nexus that encompasses reverence, irreverence, grief and (in some cases) relief. My analysis starts with...
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University of Groningen Press
2020-07-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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| Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/36909 |